When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

If there is no best design solution, then that Extreme Programming simple solution is likely to be as successful as any other…

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Restraint is so much easier to practice in the special-purpose design.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

Facts don’t cause stress. Drama and stress are caused by stories, and stories are made up.

— Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

…the cognitive psychologist marshals experimental evidence, models, and theories to show that people are engaged in surprisingly sophisticated reasoning processes of which they can give no introspective account at all. Not only are minds accessible to outsiders, some mental activities are more accessible to outsiders than to the very “owners” of those minds.

— Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I